Ticket-holder.



R. 'P. POLSKI.

TICKET HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10, 1909.

Patented. Nov. 22; 1910.

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ROMAN F. POLSKI, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

TICKET-HOLDER.

T 0 all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ROMAN F. POLSKI, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ticket Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ticket holders and has for its primary object a device of its kind which is simple and inexpensive in construction and efiective in use. I-Ieretofore ticket holders as constructed have been objectionable because they become easily detached from the material or garment on which they are used or the pins supporting them frequently engage more than one thickness of the garment or ply of material and in order to unfold the material to which they are attached, it is necessary to remove the ticket holder.

My invention is so designed as to overcome the above objections.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my invention; Fig. 2 is a section of Fig. 1 taken on the line X-X; Fig. 3 is a similar section as illustrated in Fig. 1 showing the ticket holder secured to a single th1ckness of material when in use; Fig. 4 is a front elevation of an alternate construction and Fig. 5 is a side view of the construction illustrated in Fig. 4.

In the drawings A represents a ticket such as is commonly employed for displaying the price of a garment or of cloth or other material thereon. This ticket may be of any suitable design and construction desired. On the back of this ticketis suitably secured a double pointed pin B which forms the subject matter of my invention. This pin may be made out of a single piece of spring metal wire or other suitable material which is bent substantially midway between its ends to form a body 1 from which project two substantially parallel shanks 2 and 3 which are similar in construction. These shanks are formed with offsets projecting backwardly from the ticket and slightly upwardly to produce abrupt shoulder pieces 5. The body 1 of the pin including that portion of the shanks above the shoulders 5 is secured to the back of the ticket by pasting a thin piece of paper C over the same or by other suitable means as desired. The portions of the shanks below the offsets 4 which for convenience I term points 6, bow

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 10, 1909.

Patented Nov. 22. 1910.

Serial No. 527,164.

outwardly from the ticket and their lower extremities 7 are sharpened and project below the lower edge 8 of the ticket. At the junction of each point and offset 4: is a curved shoulder 9 which presses in toward the back of the ticket. In use the points are thrust through a ply of material 10 such as illustrated, to which the ticket is to be attached leaving the shoulders 5 passing through the material. The curved shoulders 9 and lower extremities of the points then press firmly down upon the material and cooperate with the shoulders 5 to form a locking engagement between the pin carrying the ticket and the ply of material to which the ticket is attached. The sharpened extremities of the pins below the lower edge of the ticket, project sufiiciently to only pass through one ply of material or thickness of a garment so that the points can be thrust through the material without danger of engaging more than one ply or thickness of a garment. This is obviously an advantage because it overcomes an objection which prevails in prior devices. The shanks being made out of spring material cause the points to press firmly down and hold the material against the back of the ticket so that the ticket can not be easily disengaged from the material.

In the alternate construction the body of the pin is formed with a loop 11 which. is bent backwardly and turned inwardly over the upper edge 12 of the ticket to form a tight engagement therewith. Otherwise the pin is of substantially the same construction as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive. This modification is only shown to illustrate that the means of engagement between the ticket and the pin may be changed and does not form part of my invention.

In accordance with the patent statutes I have described the principles of operation of my invention together with the construction which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof but I desire to have it understood that the construction shown is only illustrative and that the invention can be carried out by other means and applied to uses other than those above set forth within the scope of the following claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1. A. holder for tickets, comprising, in combination, a shank formed in a single piece of wire bent to form a body adapted to be attached to a ticket, and a point lying behind the ticket having a looped shoulder adjacent to the shank and curved concave to the ticket and extending beyond the lying approximately in the plane of the ticket, whereby said extremity is adapted to readily pierce only one thickness of material when being attached and to hold said ticket flat upon said material after being attached.

2. A holder for tickets, comprising, in combination, a single piece of wire bent midway between its ends to form a body portion, means for engaging said body portion to said ticket, and a pair of substantially parallel shanks depending from said body portion and spaced apart, each of said shanks being formed with an abrupt shoulder projecting back from the ticket, said shoulder being formed with a first bend of slightly more than ninety degrees from the plane of the ticket and a sharp recurvature to meet the back of said ticket substantially as shown, and with a point depending from said shoulder and bowed outwardly between its ends, the lower extremity of said point extending below the lower end of said ticket, a distance equal to the thickness of the material on which the ticket is designed to be placed and the end of said point extended inwardly to the'plane of the back of the ticket, said shoulder and point being adapted to pass through the material and secure the ticket thereon.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROMAN F. POLSKI. Witnesses H. L. FISCHER, F. G. BRADBURY. 

